From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 16:14:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f188.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 294A637C243 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:14:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrismcnett@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 34852 invoked by uid 0); 20 Jul 2000 23:14:31 -0000 Message-ID: <20000720231431.34851.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.183.76.18 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:14:31 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.183.76.18] From: "Chris McNett" To: babysealkiller@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Samba Client Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:14:31 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not sure, but smb has generally unpredictable speeds from computer to computer. (I've had a windows network for years and have hated this problem.) The best way I have found to fix it is to mount drives. I think you should be able to do it using the smbmount command, but I'm not sure of the syntax, so check out the manpages. Hope that helps. >From: "Mezinque Olinisko" >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Slow Samba Client >Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:38:37 GMT > > >I am trying to pass a generated file from a FreeBSD 3.3 machine running smb >2.0.5 to a win98 machine. >This is done with a perl script using smbclient... everything works fine, >except that I only get about 10KB/s transfer rate. >These computers are connected via a 100MB/s lan connection, and when I ftp >the same file over, it gets transfered at about 5MB/s and when I send the >client via smb server (from win to bsd) I get about 1.5MB/s. > >Any ideas on what could be causing this lag? > >Thank you in advance, >Robert Shea >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message